Hello again, this time from siwa! we have arrived in a desert town, kind of like an old western movie with one sandy street and houses with balconys and shutters. We are deep in the western desert desert here, surrounded by oasis' and sand! We have taken a bike ride this morning up to the mountain of the dead (i found a bone) and then on to cleopatra's springs where we went swimming! We have a busy afternoon planned which includes hot and cold springs and sand du...

hey after surviving another jorney on the overnight train, were writing to you from Alexandria's huge biblioteque, holding 8 million books and purely by coincidence a fashion and costume exhibition woop! had lunch at a restaurant over looking the mediteranean sea and are really enjoying it being cloudy and having a sea breeze. Weve only got a day here in alex so after this were of to the bazaars to do some haggling then out to dinner for some fresh seafood. Tomor...

Greetings from luxor and the valley of the kings. We've had the most relaxing couple of days sailing down the nile by fellucca, washing and swimming in the nile and eating good hearty fishermans diners. Today has also been a long day starting at 3am in a field on the west bank of the nile, we caught a hot air balloon to take us up over the nile with some magnificent views, and back into another field, nearly a ditch. We got our certificates, free t-shirts (and a ...

Hello its Hannah were writting again from aswan, as tomorrow morning we'll be bording a felucca and sailing down the nile from aswan to luxor, sleeping on the deck of the boat and probably without anymore internet till we arrive in luxor. Well what have we been up to : yesterday we slept to recover from the night train (the craziest train ride ever, we had seats but the rest of the passangers just seemed to sleep anywhere in between! specatacular views of the nil...

Greetings from aswan where im in a stifling net cafe next to our hotel and its about 40 degrees outside. Sorry it has taken a while to write anything, its hard enough finding your hotel in cairo. We have had nice time el sheikh, was very hot, so we just stayed in the pool and relaxed mainly. Our nights in cairo have been loud and bustling but our guide has been good so we got the hang of it. We went to see the giza pyramids which were just breathtaking, especiall...